For the week ending Jan. 6, the county reported 278 laboratory-confirmed cases and 66 hospitalizations.

Public Health Department spokesman John Ricci said "it is difficult if not impossible" to pinpoint when flu season will peak. "We hope it's soon but really have no way of knowing that ... You don't know that you have peaked until you peak."

For the season, which began Oct. 1, the county has recorded 916 laboratory confirmed flu cases. Of those 916 cases, 304 are among 18- to 49-year-olds and 213 among 50- to 64-year-olds. Among people 75 and older, the county reported 226 cases. The number for those in the oldest category (85 and older) nearly doubled within this last week, from 66 cases to 121 reported cases of the flu.

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